What Have You Done To Your 2nd Gen Tacoma Today?

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Good to know. Thanks.

I've check out a few threads and have seen a few people run the same oil without issues. Do you have any insight as to why not to?

 

So beyond pleased. Amazes me how something so small and generally not really thought about, can make me so happy.

THANK YOU TACOMAWORLD!!!!!​

 

I don't think you'll have issues running it I just think it's a waste of $$. ECGS has built 5 pumpkins for me and they always say Lucas conventional.

 

Do yourself a favor and invest in some of these. my new speakers sounded like shit when I installed them but putting these in made a huge difference. Without them most of the sound gets trapped in the door and makes your speakers sound like they are in a cardboard box.

 

Thanks tacomaworld for another useful mod I would have never known about.

 

What does it do?

 

Tinted my back window on my own. Screw over priced professionals.
Before finishing the middle section, shows comparison to the 5% to stock and after finishing middle section

 

Thanks will do!

 

How much trimming did you do to fit 295/70R17's? Looks awesome!

 

Preventive maintenance basically. Replacing the foam filter from inside the air pump that tends to disintegrate, falling into your impeller blade and causing a very expensive fix. There are some good write ups on here, I just saw one the other day on this thread and ordered the filter from Amazon for like $12 I think. It's a 5 minute job literally. And it's like the Toyota engineers actually had the diy'er in mind by having a little 1" nub on the end.

 

Finally tracked down an annoying creaking noise in the cab. I originally thought it was coming from the dash and was a side effect of the damage suffered from my significant animal strike the middle of last year...but after some investigation, it turned out to be my drivers seat. When I removed my worn out wet okole covers, like an idiot I must have forgotten to tighten down the front two seat bolts. Rears were tight, fronts weren't even close! Tightened them up and the creak is gone!

 

Prevents a potential repair bill.
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...you-own-a-tacoma-you-should-read-this.449563/

 

Looks sick! On a side note, I have a very similar machine, but never have had it loaded in the bed. I have to haul two so I just trailer them. Mine are 05's, which I believe was the first year Honda went away from the signature "bug eyed" headlights. Mines the yellow one...wife dibs the red one!

 

Well, I'll be a...

That's a great tip, thanks!

 

Thanks! I haven't drove it off road yet and still have some trimming to do but I had 285s on my last truck and they seemed a little small after awhile. So far I've done a cab mount chop and trimmed just a little off the back of the fender. Gonna knock my pinch weld in sometime this week and should be good. I haven't trimmed the front part of the fender of front bumper yet. Was waiting on everything to settle.

Mines an 03 just about fully built for racing and I have a fully built trx450 too. Me and my buddy race and our trailers only big enough for one so we put one in the bed and one on the trailer. I like the look of the bug eye better myself. Along with the yellow. More of the old school look.

 

Digging the blacked out rims. I am going to pasti dip mine, but wimter came before i got.around to it. What exhaust are you running?

 

Put those in plus sound deaden your truck. You get a kick ass system!!! Don't forget good speakers and amp.

 

Makes that big of a difference with those rings, eh?

Hadn't even heard of them before but I'm not exactly a car audio expert. Doing the deadening/dampening this weekend too...
Tempted to get the rings via Amazon Prime so they're on hand when I get into the install.